Hugging Face’s new robot is the Seinfeld of AI devices

Hugging Face’s new programmable Reachy Mini bots launched this week. The AI robots are open source, Raspberry Pi-powered, and come with cartoonish antennae and big googly eyes. They don’t do much out of the box. And that’s kind of the point. Today, on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, and Anthony Ha dig… Continua a leggere Hugging Face’s new robot is the Seinfeld of AI devices

Humanoids, AVs, and what’s next in AI hardware at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27 to 29, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders for three days of bold ideas, groundbreaking tech, and future-shaping conversations.

Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals

Helios, a startup aiming to build an AI-powered operating system for policy professionals, has raised $4 million in seed funding.

Nvidia reportedly plans to release new AI chip designed for China

Nvidia plans to release a chip that is retrofitted from an existing Blackwell processor that was modified to meet chip export rules.

Google adds image-to-video generation capability to Veo 3

Google said on Thursday it’s adding an image-to-video generation feature to its Veo 3 AI video generator through its Gemini app.

Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles ‘next week,’ says Elon Musk 

Elon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok – the chatbot from his AI company, xAI – will be coming to Tesla vehicles “very soon.” “Next week at the latest,” he said.

LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth

LGND has raised $9 million to convert geographic data into vector embeddings to power AI models that understand the Earth.

Knox lands $6.5M to compete with Palantir in the federal compliance market

Irina Denisenko, CEO of Knox, launched Knox, a federal managed cloud provider, last year with a mission to help software vendors speed through the FedRAMP security authorization process in just three months, and at a fraction of what it would cost to do it on their own.

YouTube prepares crackdown on ‘mass-produced’ and ‘repetitive’ videos, as concern over AI slop grows

YouTube’s creator liaison said the change is a “minor” update to YouTube’s longstanding policies.

SaaS is in the past. The future belongs to agents, says Narada AI’s CEO.

“SaaS is going away,” said Dave Park, co-founder and CEO of Narada AI. The company is betting big on a different future for enterprise software, one powered by agentic AI. Change is coming “in the not-too-distant future,” Park said on Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast. “The typical knowledge worker today deals with anywhere from 17 to… Continua a leggere SaaS is in the past. The future belongs to agents, says Narada AI’s CEO.